Happy Daylight Saving Time!

[pocket]

Oh joy! I wonder how long it'll take me to get used to the time change this time.:confused:

[patchiepoopoo]

It takes me a long time to get adjusted to losing that one hour................not looking forward to it. However, it is nice to have the lighter evenings. :)

[Gabby]

I'm not happy about it. :(

Since we live at the end of the time zone -- it's already staying light until after 7:00. I enjoy having the morning light which will now go away.

[Slitter]

I hate this one. I never seem to have a problem sleeping an extra hour :) but losing the hour typically messes with me for at least a week. Now that we're doing it earlier, it'll also be pitch black when I have to get up in the mornings instead of at least a greyish sort of light. That makes it so much harder to wake up and I'm not what you'd call "perky" in the morning anyway.

Lighter evenings are nice but they'll be a lot more useful when it is warmer and we can actually use them for something.

I did have an interesting thing happen. I came home from the grocery store today to see something hanging on my door. Usually that would just be an ad for someplace but today is was a package of two 9-volt batteries with a reminder to change the ones in my fire alarms. I thought that was pretty cool.

[tahitisweetie]

I never like losing an hour either.

And right now it is 7:45 a.m. and it is barely even light at my house. Uugghhh.

I love the morning light as well. I'm a morning person so the sun is all part of my routine.

[Virgo6]

Well, I love Daylight Saving Time. Now maybe I will get off my butt after eating dinner and cleaning up and actually do something besides sit at the computer or watch tv. When its DARK and cold I never feel like doing much but EAT!!! lol
Now, I might go for a walk or take a ride to visit a friend or go shopping. It will throw us all off for awhile, but we will adjust.

[An-g_BB]

Gabby I hear ya!
We used to live in Ft Wayne Indiana 10 yrs ago- at that time- they never observed DST- too close to an 'edge' as you call it. It was annoying as half the year we'd be central...then the other eastern- Now i think they finally adopted to go with Illinois and actually do the change.
Until they changed to do DST, one lil thing that made it crazy was trucking delivery for my DH, half of the year it would be eastern time zone- and the other the same as IL. :huh: the office would forget about keeping track of it sometimes and he'd be either an hour late- or hour early depending on the time of yr. :rolleyes:


but heres a crazy story.
one FALL back time change- our minister was in the middle of his sermon and i guess everyone was yawning--(i was thankfully on Nursery Duty) but all of a sudden i can HEAR hollering...REALLLY loud thru the wall! :huh: I couldnt make out the words...but after church pretty much everyone hot footed out and left. ~in the car... My DH tells me... Pastor got really upset....and pitched a fit during his sermon--he told them it was because everyone was yawning and he felt it was rude as everyone had had that extra hour of sleep that am...and he was tired of watching most of the congregation yawn.... :eek: was pretty much the reaction dan told me! lol....
Pastor appoligized before he fininshed the sermon...but boy-- he shocked a lot of people!! from then on...pretty much everyone was paranoid to ever yawn at all during church!! hahahahah

[pocket]

Once we're into DST, I like it. It's the time change.... I have a problem adjusting to it. It takes at least a week. The long evenings I love, but when we first go into DST it's still night in the morning.........er..........well, you get my drift.

[Irishlass]

I did have an interesting thing happen. I came home from the grocery store today to see something hanging on my door. Usually that would just be an ad for someplace but today is was a package of two 9-volt batteries with a reminder to change the ones in my fire alarms. I thought that was pretty cool.

That is pretty cool.........any idea who the "battery fairy" is? It reminded me that needs to be done here too.

As far as the springing forward is concerned..............I hate it! Indiana just joined the rest of the country last fall after years of not observing daylight saving time. The falling back wasn't so bad, but this is another story. I've felt sluggish all day. I'm sure I'll adjust soon but in the mean time I really dislike it.

[WOODTURNER]

ONCE AGAIN I SAY UNTO YOU: If you wanna get up earlier (or later) don't change the clocks in the whole damned country. :curse: Change your own routine!!! :splat: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature":crazy:

No DST is the only reason to live in Arizona.:evilgrin:

[Slitter]

IL, the battery fairy (lol) was a local church. Better that they'd let me buy the batteries and sent someone over to put them in. That's where I always have trouble. It was a nice thing for them to do though, for sure.

[Fuel]

Not liking this change, I really like the morning light. By the evening, fatigue has set in, and the extra light isn't helpful.

[spf15]

I hate it, because I work for a consumer electronics firm so DST changes (particularly when the rules change like they did this year) are a royal PITA. Think Y2K crisis, but artifically created!

[Typhoonmary]

No DST is the only reason to live in Arizona.:evilgrin:
Yes, but it is nice for an occasional visit. :)

DST Sunday was especially important for me this year because I was predestined to be a greeter at church on March 11. I understand the concept and appreciate the tradition, if not the early hour.

I wonder if anyone on the committee thought about how hard it is to stand in one place for forty minutes if you have RA or how many viruses you can collect by shaking hands with a couple hundred people. :huh:

Heresy: Maybe I'll suggest one of those hand sanitizer stands....in place of holy water. :idea:

[patchiepoopoo]

Heresy: Maybe I'll suggest one of those hand sanitizer stands....in place of holy water. :idea:


That was a good one Typhoon :biglaugh:

[Texas Kelly]

I'm a little torn about it for the reasons spf mentioned - I work in IT for a federal government branch, so we had a lot of people we had to deal with today whose machines and Blackberry devices hadn't gotten the proper patches - but for the most part, I like the change. I think it's because unlike most here, I'm a late riser. (I usually get up around 8:15 AM and don't arrive to work until about 10:00 AM, staying in the office until about 6:30 PM.) It works well because the office likes to have arrivals spread out (and we have a nice balance right now), and I like to sleep late anyway. :)

[AvecLion]

I did have an interesting thing happen. I came home from the grocery store today to see something hanging on my door. Usually that would just be an ad for someplace but today is was a package of two 9-volt batteries with a reminder to change the ones in my fire alarms. I thought that was pretty cool.

Recently, there was a fire down the street. Within 20 minutes, the house was destroyed (electrical fire). No one was injured - apparently the wife had noticed that the light wasn't on the smoke detector and changed the batteries just before bed, around 11:30. Five and half hours later, they were homeless and had lost everything they owned but the pajamas they ran outside in....but they said it was the smoke alarm that woke them up.

So if you haven't changed the batteries yet, please make sure ya do. ;)

[AvecLion]

I don't see the point in changing the clocks. Sorry - it's not saving anything, the sun still shnes for the same length of time daily, regardless of what arbitrary numbers we assign.

Of course, this is from someone who works nights and really doesn't see the effects.